Indeed I think that will be better.
Of course you will tell her ladyship of my whereabouts.
Tell her from me, that as regards the bishop, as well as regarding another great personage, the colour has been laid on perhaps a little too thickly.

Not that Lady Lufton would ever like him.

Make her understand that my going to the duke's has almost become a matter of conscience with me.

I have not known how to make it appear that it would be right for me to refuse, without absolutely making a party matter of it.

I saw that it would be said, that I, coming from Lady Lufton's parish, could not go to the Duke of Omnium's.